“He wasn’t screaming for me. He was screaming, ‘Jesus, Jesus save me. Jesus, I hear you, Jesus. I’m calling upon you.’”
This week, a North Carolina mother described her son’s final moments of life before he perished in the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Seven-year-old Micah Drye had reached the top of his house’s roof in Asheville, NC and thought he had reached safety when the floodwaters came and carried away the little boy and his grandparents to their deaths.
“He wasn't screaming for me. He was screaming, ‘Jesus, Jesus save me, Jesus, I hear you, Jesus. I'm calling upon you,’” the boy’s mother, Meghan Drye told Fox Weather’s Marissa Torres and Stephen Morgan.
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View on X“In his wildest dreams—and everything that he wanted to be a superhero, and that was his goal in life. And instead, he's my hero, because he reached for something past flesh, past human, past anything that even grown adults, I think, would reach for,” Drye said.
"My son, called out to the One God Almighty. And I think at that moment, he was rescued, and he became my hero,” she said. “I think that his biggest dreams; he was the smartest, bravest, hopeful, great friend, great son. I couldn’t have asked for a better son. And he was so happy up until the very end, when he was screaming for Jesus. And in the moment, I think he found joy.”
Torres began to respond, saying, “You know, the innocence of children is actually quite spectacular,” when she got emotional and could not continue.
Hurricane Helene has been the deadliest storm to hit the US since Katrina in 2005 and is now responsible for the deaths of at least 215 people. More than 150,000 households are seeking the assistance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and that number could double in the next few days.
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